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  Yeats will not seek reelection as SBC recording secretary

  John Yeats’ 25th term as recording secretary for the Southern Baptist Convention will be his last, he told Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Board members at the group’s meeting March 7.

  03/09/2022 - By Baptist Press Staff

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  Around the State: Gift benefits Theology, Ecology and Food Justice partnership

  A $455,000 grant from an anonymous donor will allow the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty to partner with and provide support for Truett Theological Seminary’s Master of Arts degree in Theology, Ecology and Food Justice.

  03/09/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

• Obituary: Paul Wayne Stripling

  Paul Wayne Stripling, who served more than six decades as a Texas Baptist pastor and associational director of missions, died March 4 in Mansfield. He was 86.

  03/09/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Ambassadors share concerns about religious freedom threats

  Three U.S. ambassadors for international religious freedom—a Muslim, a Jew and a Christian—raised concerns about threats to global liberty of conscience during the Global Faith Forum in Keller.

  03/08/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Friendship prompted faith leaders to help during hostage crisis

  Relationships matter, and they need to be developed across faith barriers before a crisis occurs, speakers told the Global Faith Forum at NorthWood Church in Keller.

  03/08/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Unlikely allies call fellow clergy to build bridges

  Pastors, rabbis and imams gathered at an “Unlikely” forum at a North Texas Baptist church to talk about how to live as good neighbors while holding to deeply held religious differences.

  03/08/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Spiritual songs anchor faith, history of Black Americans

  Roy Cotton, a retired ethnomusicologist and former director of African American ministries for the Baptist General Convention of Texas, said God has used songs as a cultural vehicle of liberation for African Americans.

  03/07/2022 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Spread of antisemitic propaganda rose last year

  Dissemination of white supremacist propaganda in the United States fell by 5 percent in 2021, while specific antisemitic propaganda rose by 27 percent, a new report by the Anti-Defamation League finds.

  03/07/2022 - By Yonat Shimron / Religion News Service

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  SBC President Litton reflects on race, sex abuse

  On the first day of March, Ed Litton announced he will not run for a second term as president of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Then he got back to work.

  03/07/2022 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Florida pastor Willy Rice nominee for SBC president

  Willy Rice, pastor of Calvary Church in Clearwater, Fla., will be nominated for the president of the Southern Baptist Convention this summer at the 2022 SBC annual meeting.

  03/07/2022 - By Jonathan Howe / Baptist Press

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  ‘If you build it, they will come’ no longer works—for churches

  Both baseball and houses of worship have experienced decline. Some see similar reason for it.

  03/07/2022 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Baptists in Poland provide Ukrainian refugees warm welcome

  Texas Baptist Men is providing significant funding to support four shelters in churches in Poland and Ukraine. A TBM team currently is on the field meeting specialized needs and providing logistical support to the Poles.

  03/07/2022 - By Rand Jenkins / Texas Baptist Men